Calwyne Posted July 26, 2020 Report Share Posted July 26, 2020 I'm looking into methods of creating trees for an indie game dev project. I want to be able to pivot paint my trees within 3DS max in order to achieve realistic wind animations (using the Pivot Painter 2.0 maxscript provided by Epic). I decided to have a shot on one of your free example trees - however simply detaching all meshes results in a chaos that is essentially impossible to arrange in a logical hierarchy of trunk>branch> branch>leaf etc which is required in order to be processed by the script. Is there any way to export the tree without combining the meshes into one object - and keeping that logical parent/child hierarchy? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JabbaTheNut Posted April 20, 2022 Report Share Posted April 20, 2022 Hi, The GrowFX 2.0 "Preference Parameters" rollout has a section entitled "Creating Hierarchy". In this section, one can select "Create Hierarchy of Meshes" to get a complete, fully linked, mesh hierarchy. As well, it appears that all of the pivots are appropriately placed and aligned. Kudos to the GrowFX development team for implementing this feature! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stig Posted April 24, 2022 Report Share Posted April 24, 2022 Hi I cant find this section about "Creating Hieararchy" and the Create Hierarchy of meshes..?? I have both GrowFX 2.0 and 1.99. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JabbaTheNut Posted April 26, 2022 Report Share Posted April 26, 2022 Hi stig, I am using the GrowFX 2.0 version that supports 3ds Max 2023. The first image shows the rollout which contains the button. The second image shows the results of clicking that button. I have tested the resulting hierarchy with PivotPainter 2.0 and it works great! Quite a nice addition to the plugin. Opens new possibilities Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stig Posted April 26, 2022 Report Share Posted April 26, 2022 Hi JabbaTheNut Absolutely Fabulus Looking froward to try this out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harryb Posted April 30, 2023 Report Share Posted April 30, 2023 This is great news! I’ve been waiting for this feature for a while. Can’t wait to try it out! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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